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There are few books that are more important to me than Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions. The Qur’an, of course, is in a different category. I can’t put Sally Fallon above any other religious text either. […]

Good food has a good story. The better the food, the better the story. There might be exceptions, but I don’t know of any. In the average grocery store, the most unusual, extraordinary, inspiring story is the […]

What is “beet-fed beef?” Last month, during a stretch of below-zero nights, some of our root vegetables froze. Our space heater broke, and the temperature in the storage area dropped into the low 20’s. About […]

What’s the highest potential of organic agriculture? Can organic foods support better health? “Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.” This is not my idea. I am sure Hippocrates learned this from […]

Halal is what halal is, but striving towards complementing that, and not separating it from the tayyeb aspect, that’s the direction we want to push people in… Ramadan Mubarak! Krystina interviews Imam Khalid Latif, co-founder […]

by Giovanni Galluzzo of Murujan Permaculture Design The Stage is Set Humanity has collectively submitted to the idea that the highest aims are material wealth and technological advancement. This philosophy of economic materialism is what […]

We had the pleasure and privilege of representing Beyond Halal at the Fifth Annual Islamic Studies Conference at Harvard in April, this year titled Communities Like You: Animals and Islam. One of the most moving […]

We had a chance to pose a few questions to Munir Ravalia, a dentist, committee member at the Kingston Mosque, and an avid beekeeper, about the UK’s Muslim Beekeeping Project. BH: I’ve read that one […]

Asiila Imani is a mother, midwife, doula, and writer who home schools and teaches language arts to children in her community. For the past five years she’s been trying her hand at backyard gardening, getting […]

By Humera Afridi This piece originally ran on AAWW’s Open City February 21st, 2013. On an overcast October afternoon on the 2nd day of Eid ul-Adha, the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice, a lamb nuzzled its […]

In our first podcast, Krystina sits down with Rhamis Kent, a Permaculture consultant who travels all over the Middle East and North Africa advising governments and organizations on how they can engage in ecosystem restoration […]

You may remember last year’s halalapalooza over Butterball turkeys spurred by Islamophobe Pamela Geller, the result of which, for many of us, might have been a shared “huh, Butterball is halal you say?” Of course, […]